biography
| name: |
Scaligero, Giulio Cesare
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pronunciation:
[skalijayroh]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1484–1558)
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| biography:
| Physician and scholar, born in Riva del Garda, Trentino-Alto Adige, N Italy. After graduating in medicine at Bologna, he moved to France (1525) as personal doctor to the Bishop of Agen. His fame rests on the Poetices libri septem (1561) which give a rationalistic reading of Aristotle's Aesthetics. |
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